“The Second Opinion” is the most recent medical thriller from physician-author Michael Palmer.
The following information is available from Dr. Palmer’s website:
“Michael’s 14th novel is now complete and has been released as of 2/17/09. Readers at St. Martin’s Press are calling it his best to date. The heroine is Thea Sperelakis, 33-year-old internal medicine specialist, and youngest child of world renown Dr. Petros Sperelakis. At age 10, Thea was diagnosed with the form of autism called Asperger syndrome. She has a remarkably high IQ, and a near photographic memory for almost everything she has ever read. But she also battles difficulties in social pragmatics, in interpreting deceit, and in telling even the most minor lies. Her lack of guile has led her to leave the complicated politics and egos of modern American medicine and to join (much to her father’s chagrin) Doctors Without Borders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Thea is forced to return home when her father is put into a coma by a hit and run driver. What she will find out is that the event was no accident, and further, that Petros is conscious but unable to move and unwilling to communicate . . . except with her. The McGuffin (see writing tip #14) revolves around electronic medical records, which are now the law in most of the country. What Thea learns from her father and deduces for herself will put her in the greatest of danger.
THE SECOND OPINION is a tense tale of love, betrayal, peril, and indomitable will.”
For more information on Michael Palmer and his books, please visit his official website.
